Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (Hage Ghassan)(Paperback)

Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (Hage Ghassan)(Paperback)

This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms

Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction (Goodale Mark)(Paperback)

An introduction to the anthropology of law that explores the connections between law, politics, and technology.From legal responsibility for genocide to rectifying past injuries to indigenous people, the anthropology of law addresses some of the crucial ethical issues of our day. Over the past

Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Bottici Chiara)(Paperback)

Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding of the imaginal

Is Racism an Environmental Threat? (Hage Ghassan)(Paperback)

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of

What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination (Khasnabish Alex)(Paperback)

Emerging from the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, Canada, What Moves Us? brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement- based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radical imagination and

Durkheim: A Critical Introduction (Allen Kieran)(Paperback)

A critical introduction to the sociology and politics of Emile

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Seymour Richard)(Paperback)

How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice--and won bigIn the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream media

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Kelley Robin D. G.)(Paperback)

Pearson Edexcel A Level UK Government and Politics Sixth Edition (McNaughton Neil)(Paperback / softback)

Build your knowledge of UK Government and Politics, develop critical understanding and practise the skills that will help your students in their

Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Clifford James)(Paperback)

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hogg James)(Paperback)

'A real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved.' -- Robert Louis Stevenson The son of a radical Calvinist minister conducts a crime spree that horrifies eighteenth-century Scottish society in this gripping tale of murder, madness, and demonic possession. According to Robert Wringhim, his

Pearson Edexcel A Level US Government and Politics (Bennett Anthony J)(Paperback / softback)

Build your knowledge of US politics, develop critical understanding and practise the skills that will help your students in their

The Invention of Culture (Wagner Roy)(Paperback)

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Adams Carol J.)(Paperback)

The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of

Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (Dimitrakaki Angela)(Paperback)

What happens to art when feminism grips the curatorial imagination? How do sexual politics become realised as exhibits? Is the struggle against gender discrimination compatible with the aspirations of museums led by market values? Beginning with the feminist critique of the art exhibition in the

Politics of Restorative Justice - A Critical Introduction (Woolford Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

In this updated edition of The Politics of Restorative Justice, Andrew Woolford and Amanda Nelund reconsider restorative justice and its politics and ask how restorative justice might work better to provide transformative justice. To achieve a transformative justice, Woolford and Neulund argue,

On Kings (Graeber David)(Paperback)

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists--David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins--explores

Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics (Kuhn Gabriel)(Paperback)

Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political

Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (Morgan Iwan)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a

World in Fragments: Writings on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and the Imagination (Castoriadis Cornelius)(Paperback)

This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its ways of living and being, its goals, its

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (Boix Carles)(Paperback)

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics. Part I includes chapters surveying the key research

Community Development: A Critical and Radical Approach (Ledwith Margaret)(Paperback)

Community development's social justice principles are under threat from the current resurgence of far-Right politics. The dangerous escalation of economic inequalities calls for new ideas on power and new approaches to practice. Rooted in radical community development's strong theoretical

International Politics - International Student Edition - Classic and Contemporary Readings(Paperback / softback)

Comprehensive edited IR reader introducing students to critical scholarship and debates in the field, helping them engage

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Laclau Ernesto)(Paperback)

In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings,